> with subscription based mmorpg's you're making a purchase EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
If you don't like it, then vote with your dollar. No one is FORCING you to play & pay.
Find a game that you can play with your friends that doesn't involve a monthly fee.
Ask yourself this -- what is more important: Being with friends or Having to pay for the opportunity to do so?
> and as such you could expect them to keep the game interesting without...
The games industry, unfortunately, cares only about one thing - the bottom line. Not sure why this is such a shock to most people.
What's that quote: "There's a sucker born every minute."
Of course, there are a few titles & companies that do care about quality -- but the MMORPGs exist to make money. They _have_ to -- they won't last if they don't! The subscription model is the dream state -- how to get customers to continually pay for a product that is never finished! "Ship it!" becomes the norm, since your product is always being worked on. A program is perpetually buggy, by definition.
Look, I'm not against MMORPGs. One just needs to take a look at the bigger picture. I'm currently playing WoW and having a great time running my guild. Is the game perfect, no. But guess what, as a game developer I understand that there is NO SUCH thing as a perfect game. EVERY system has flaws and limitation. Do you want to bitch about it, or _DO_ something constructively about it? Organize a petition, inform others, etc. Simply complaing about a game, doesn't let the developers (or publisher) aware of it, unless it is on a site that they read.
Thankfully blizzard has the "/bug" command to log bugs & suggestions. I use it all the time: about 2 bugs a day. Hopefully my feedback will make things better in the future.
There's a difference between criticism, and constructive criticism.
I agree, it's going to _very_ interesting to see what the graph(s) look like in 6 months, especially with World of Warcraft
Will WoW increase the market share or cannibalize it? Hard to say, but I think we'll see more people who don't play MMORPGs, check WoW out, since it's not focused on the hard-core players. I even had a casual gamer friend say to me, who was also on the Open Beta...
"I'm already addicted, and its not even out yet!"
If someone who is a casual gamer (who only really likes co-op gaming) is excited about WoW, then its doing something right.
I'm an UO vet, and also had a chance to play the Open Beta. WoW is looking & playing nicely; it's got a good blend of UO, EQ, and D2.
Maybe it will turn out to be just-another-mmorpg, but it's to find one that is evolutionary enough, that you think is worth checking out.
Oh god, I sound like a blizzard-fan-boy... It's not my fault I enjoyed WC2, and D2X damit!
> There is no significant historical evidence pre-ice age that homo sapiens were anything more than small nomadic bands
Just because you are ignorant of them, doesn't mean there are none:
- Why do the Pyramids and Sphinx show water erosion
- Granite Coffer show sign of super-advanced drilling techniques. Spiraling patterns show this drill capable o drilling 1/10th of an inch per second. The best we can do thru granite is 1/100th.
- Eeboom and Belting found ancient gold trinkets of workingaircraft models , once scaled up.
- A machined3D relief map120-million years old in a 1-ton stone, with inscriptions.
http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/origins.html "It is the position of many Biblical researchers that most of the Old Testament comes from other, more ancient writings. Even ** Jewish ** writers admit that most of the Hebrew writings were merely taken freely from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and even Greek sources.
- Horace Meyer Kallen, at one time a professor at the Jewish New School of Social Research, said that the Book of Job was lifted bodily from an early and obscure Greek play.
- Scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky admitted that there are "many parallels" between the Vedic Hymns and the Books of Joel and Isaiah.
- Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin claimed that the Book of Genesis is based on the Sumerian creation myth.
- The story of Noah comes from the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh.
- The Psalms were taken word for word from Akhenaton's Hymns to the Sun, written 600 years earlier in Egypt.
- The Ten Commandments (3,5,6,7,8,9,10) were taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/BOD125.HTM h ttp://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/moses2.html
#3 I have come to you, my Lord, I have brought myself here to behold your beauties.
I know you, and I know your name,
I have not cursed a god. I have not scorned any god.
#5 I have not oppressed the members of my family.
I have not oppressed servants.
I have not cause harm to be done to a servant by his master.
#6 I have not killed.
I have not given the order to kill.
I have not inflicted pain on anyone.
#7 I have not fornicated.
#8 I have not added to or stolen land.
I have not added weights to the scales to cheat buyers.
I have not misread the scales to cheat buyers.
#9 I have not lied,
#10 I have not encroached on the land of others.
Here is an interesting link to more Egyptian & Old Testament scriptural similiarilities: http://www.mystae.com/restricted /streams/thera/egy pt.html
- The New Testament wasn't compiled until 200-400 years after the fact. by Irenaeus. http://www.thenazareneway.com/gospels_s econd_centu ry_writings.htm
"If this is true, then many informed researchers have asked: How can we call the Torah and other books of the Old Testament the Word of God?"
The Bible is NOT to be interpreted strictly literally, for why does Paul write in Gal 4:21-24 "These things may be taken _figuratively_, for the women represent two covenants." ?
Furthermore, if the Bible is the word of God, _which_ version would that be??
Too bad/. didn't have stickies, as we could compile a "recommended" app list summary.
I finally remembered that DVD authoring program for Windows... - DVD Maestro => DVD Studio, or Sizzle (Allthough it is no longer being sold.:( I wonder what people are using instead?)
You a Red Dwarf fan?! The seasons are out on DVD! (Or your "local" torrent TV show listing)
Maybe the/. crowd can help point out a Mac, Window, & Linux versions of these Audio/Video apps?
CakeWalk BeSweet VirtualDub TMPGEnc Alcohol 120% DVD Decryter DVD Shrink ? => DVD Studio Pro Nero => DiskBlaze (or are there better burning apps?)
I'm in the process of switching over to Mac OS X. (The only other OS that ever got me excited was BeOS.) The funny thing is I used to *hate* Macs, LOL.
> If you look at the original text, the word used for "God" is Elohim.
1) There is NO _original_ text, but I know you meant the Hebrew, and Paleo-Hebrew sources.
2) There are _72_ names used for God throughout the OT/OC.
Here is a list of the 72 Names of the Myriad Expression of the Living God. Adonai Yahweh (Ah-doe-noi-yah-vay) Lord Yahweh Aleph-Etz-Adonai (ah-lef Etz Ah-doe-noi) The tree of Aleph (the beginning) of Lordship. Ammi Shaddai (Ah-me Sha-Digh) The people (or family) of Shaddai (Almighty God) Ari Shemoth (Ah-ree She-mote) The Lion (Ari) who leads the Exodus (Shemoth) by means of the Sacred Language. Abba Nartoomid (Ah-bah-Nahr-too-meed) Father of the Eternal Light Adonai (Ah-doe-noi) Lord Adonai Elohenu Adonai (Ah-doe-noi El-low-heh-new Ah-doe-noi) Lord, Our (Creative) God, Lord Adonai Tsebayoth (Ah-doe-noi Sah-bigh-yoth) The (Sovereign) Lord of Armies (or the Hosts of the Heavens) Bath Kol (Bah-th Koal) The Voice of the Dove, the power activating the feminine side of creation. Be-mid-bar (Be-mid-bar) In the Wilderness symbolic for the ingathering and reprogramming using the code of Divine Numbers (Hebrew name for the Fourth Book of the Bible. Bereshith Bara (Beara-sheeth Beara) The beginning (Word) of Life (Genesis) Binah Ruach Devekut (Been-ah Roo-ahk Day-vah-koot) Clinging to God through the Spirit of Understanding. Chesed Tushiyyah Shiloh (Chess-ed Too-she-yah-Shy-low) The place where the Loving-kindness of God will be in support of the Messianic Forces (the One who is or who will be manifest) Chokmah Michaelilu (Hook-mah Mee-ka-Aye-loo) The Wisdom of Michael (and the order of Michael) shared with the saints. Dabar Nartoomid Yesod Yeshuaiahu (Dah-bar Nah-too-meed Yes-ohd Ysh-ah Yh-who) The Word of Eternal Light (Dabar Nartoomid) which is the Foundation (Yesod) for Salvation. The code of the voice of Yeshuaiahu singing: Comfort Ye. Comfort Ye, my people. Daniel Ehohai Ariel (Dah-nee-el El-lo-high Ah-ree-el) The Glorious Lion of God (Ariel) opening the (Seven Seals of) My God's (Elohai) Divine Judgment (Daniel). Derek Kedoshah Yirmeahu (Dare-ik Key-doe-sha Yer-me ee-ah-who) The Holy Way of Yah who loosens the Womb. Div-ray Haay-ya-min Hay Yom (Div-ray Hay-ya-meem Hay-yohm) The Chronicles of the Day of Days (in Service to the Most High). Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh (Eh-ya Ah-sher Eh-ya) I AM THAT I AM (or I SHALL BE WHAT I SHALL BE). El El (L L) A call to the Living God El El Elyon (L L L-ee-yon) The most High God (be with us) El Shaddai (L Sha-digh) The Lord God Almighty (Metatron) Eli, Eli (A-lee, A-lee) My God, My God Eloha Elohim (El-low-ha El-low-heem) The Living God of the Living Godhead. Eloha Umma (El-low-ha Ooo-ma) God of the Universal Soul. Esah Meshiah (Ace-sah Mah-she-ah) Counsel (or advice) of the Messiah Ha Shem (Hah Shem) The name (of Names). Hakdamoth Hekaloth (Hahk-dah-moh-th Hek-ah-low-th) Entrance of the House of Many Mansions (Many Heavens). Hod Ha-Melek Zedek, Melchizedek Meshiah (Hohd Hah-Mell-ek Zah-dek, Mel-key-zah-dek Mah-she-ah) The Splendor of the Righteous King and messiahship of Melchizedek. Jehezekel-Malkuth (Jeh-hez-zee-kel Mal-koot) God Strengthens (Ezekiel) His Kingdom. Jehova-Yahweh Melchizedek (Ji-hoe-vah Yah-vay Mel-key-za-dek) The Revealed name of Our Father operating with Lord Melchizedek. Jeshurun (Yeh-sha-rune) Righteous or code name for the Program/people of Israel. Joiel Qohel'eth Tiphereth (Joe-ee-el Quo-hel-eth Tee-pa-reth) The beauty (Tiphereth) in the Teacher who knows that the Lord is El. Kadumah Elohim (Kah-doo-ma El-low-heem) The Revealed Divine Image of the Godhead. Kadumah Kadmon (Kah-doo-ma Kahd-mon) The Embodiment of the Divine Issuance. Kether Etz Chaim Jehu (Ke-ther Eh-tz Kah-eem Jay-who) The Tree of Life that touches upon the Crown of Life in the Affirmation of the Nameâ or Crown (Kether) of the Tree of Life (Etz Chaim) affirmed by the name (Jehu). Kodoish Kodoish Kodoish Adonai 'Tsebayoth (Kah-doy-sh, Kah-doy-sh, Kah-doy-
> You guys end up telling us to spend too much money on the wrong things.
What is the most expensive speakers or video system you have actually spent some time with??
Once you've heard & seen a GOOD system, then you know where the priorities need to be adjusted.
This isn't a discussion about crap speakers less then $500.
Why in the earth that someone would spend a few thousand dollars on getting mid-range gear, and skimp on the cables is beyond me. If you can afford the $3500 speakers/TV, you can afford to spend $300 to get GOOD cables.
I spent $4000 on the plasma. Spending $400 on two video cables (Component & S-Video) WAS a noticable improvement over the $40 cables.
> 10% on cables!!
The trick is how to maximize the quality/price ratio. I came up with the 10% rule, because it was worked out VERY well for me. Since it is a rule, it provides a STARTING point -- it's not the word of God.
I probably shoud revise that rule with 2 clauses:
1) This price is based STRICTLY on the Video, and Speakers ONLY. This does not include the receiver, players, and other gizmos.
2) Between 1% and 10% is a good price range. Oviously the "real" serious audiophiles with the golden ears, will spend more. Hey everyone has a hobby, and I can understand their need for quality, but the rest of, a good price point helps prioritize the budget.
> If you're only spending $500-1000 on a system, just use the cables that come with the speakers..
I definatey agree. The 1%-10% would have us in the $5-$50 and $10 to $100 price range.
> Bose is an acronym for Buy Other Sound Equipment. > Most of what you are paying for when buying Bose is the marketing.
Hehe. What's that tagline that us audiophiles use:
"All the highs, none of the lows, must be Bose!"
Gee, I wonder why they NEVER give tech specs on any of their speakers. Not anything fancy like SN ratio, but even the BASIC info such as frequency range! Maybe because they are CRAP and OVER_RATED speakers. See the speaker forumforum at avsforum if you want MULTIPLE confirmations on how bad they sound.
Monster cable isn't THAT bad.... the rule of thumb is to spend 10% of your Home Theater / Speaker cost on cables... so MC is'n't that over-inflated. It's not great, but it's better that Rat Shack.
BTW, if anyone is serious about GOOD video cable quality, check out the Nordost line.
Peace -- While killing all the lawyers would make many people EXCEEDINGLY HAPPY (myself included) it would NOT _SOLVE_ the problem -- because the problem is the face in the mirror. If you don't like the laws, then DO something about it, or shut up, because simply bitching accomplishes absolutely nothing.
> isnt the Emotion Engine (PS2) an 128bit processor?
Yeah, the EE has 128-bit registers for when the CPU is dealing with 4x Floats at a time, (Vectors via the VU0 & VU1), otherwise it is a normal 64-bit cpu.
I remember finding hidden messages in the Apple ][ games I played. It was relatively easy todo, because you could memory scan for $C000 or $C010 (IO address for the keyboard strobe) (i.e. Trivial to stash a memory scanner program at $0300 the memory area before the text page, because most cases would load their code at $0800.
Another cool thing was finding hidden messages using a sector editor. It was quite feasable to scan 40 tracks * 16 sectors.
Some of the hidden codes/messages I remember..
Mario Bros - Instead of running the game, if you loaded it and took a look at the entry point, you saw a jump. If you "started" the game, 3 bytes later, you would get a text pages of message from The Fly about cracking it. i.e. BLOAD MARIOS BROS CALL -151 803G
- Gumball Press Ctrl-Z during the intermission to get hints about another Br0derbund game.
- Spare Change Ctrl-z would bring up a secret control panel.
> Most cameras that offer RAW mode have 12 bit sensors so you get 4096
I couldn't remember if it was 10-bit or 12-bit. Thx for the correction.
> The problem with JPG is that those 12 bits of information are squeezed into 256 levels of an 8 bit image.
Yeah, quantization sucks.
> Why is it that CinePaint doesn't get more publicity?
Never heard of CinePaint until today. I imagine Photoshop publicity is spread via a word-of-mouth type advertising. It is what everyone-else-you-know uses, either at home or at work, so it gets plugged. Why look for alternatives, when it does what you need?
Wow, CinePaint was used in "2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films." Pretty cool. Thx for the link.
We don't have a choice for bindings to the thin-vineer of an OS, so it's either C or C++. Most C programmers switch over to C++ because of the new paradigms the language lets you express natively, and fortunately the language is backwards compatible. (Its strength is also its weakness.)
I'm not sure why you got modded down as flamebait. Any language is unsafe. Some just make it easier to use & abuse then others:) Calling C safe shows that the mod doesn't understand (or have a clue) exactly what dangerious low level programming C allows, and obsviously they never had to spend any time tracing through (malloc) memory leaks. Blah.
>> Yeah, StarOffice/OO are open-source and free but they don't have the features that Word does. > Which features?
I prefer OO.org myself, but here's a short list of a few problems I've found
- Word Art doesn't display or print correctly. - Table of Contents is cut off in an imported Word Doc. - No way to search for 2 consequitive enter/returns without some plugin that is slow, and doesn't work properly. (Find / Special Characters really needs to be implemented properly and natively.) - Copying formatting is not the same as word. In word, you include the Paragraph marker. In OO.org you exclude it. - Resetting Page Number in an already formatted document is quirky. You have to monkey around to get it to work properly.
OO.org is getting there, slowly. Fortunately, the above bugs/mis-features aren't a show stopper for me.
-- Original, Fun Palm games by the Lead Designer of Majesty! http://www.arcanejourneys.com/
> But very often digital cameras don't have separate sensors for each pixel; they have alternating R G B sensors in a kind of chessboard arrangement, and then interpolate the missing values.
dpreview is THE site for camera buffs, much the same way avsforum is for us audio & vidio philes. Now if only I could find sites for other categories....
> what's wrong with 32 (RGB-10bit)?? >1024 discrete levels is about as good as your ever going to get on a CRT > or LCD with the contrast ratios available to you.
That's 1024 for ONLY primary colors and banding still sucks on it. Unpure color gradients are limited even further. BLAH.
> So where do you get 64? 16-bit components * 4 channels = 64 Bit RGBA color
DX9 cards already support 16 bit half-floating point
-- Philosophy is a belief -- religion is the path that you walk in order to prove your philosophy.
- James, Brother of Yeshua
Page-up/down for directory history is worth it alone.
-- Tobacco represents a huge tax base for the government. The government is as addicted to the revenue from smokers as the smokers are to the cigarettes.
- WetKarma (plastic.com)
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> anyone living or renting without insurance is a moron.
Oh, the irony of someone who has no clue what a ponzi-scheme is.
> with subscription based mmorpg's you're making a purchase EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
...
If you don't like it, then vote with your dollar. No one is FORCING you to play & pay.
Find a game that you can play with your friends that doesn't involve a monthly fee.
Ask yourself this -- what is more important: Being with friends or Having to pay for the opportunity to do so?
> and as such you could expect them to keep the game interesting without
The games industry, unfortunately, cares only about one thing - the bottom line. Not sure why this is such a shock to most people.
What's that quote:
"There's a sucker born every minute."
Of course, there are a few titles & companies that do care about quality -- but the MMORPGs exist to make money. They _have_ to -- they won't last if they don't! The subscription model is the dream state -- how to get customers to continually pay for a product that is never finished! "Ship it!" becomes the norm, since your product is always being worked on. A program is perpetually buggy, by definition.
Look, I'm not against MMORPGs. One just needs to take a look at the bigger picture. I'm currently playing WoW and having a great time running my guild. Is the game perfect, no. But guess what, as a game developer I understand that there is NO SUCH thing as a perfect game. EVERY system has flaws and limitation. Do you want to bitch about it, or _DO_ something constructively about it? Organize a petition, inform others, etc. Simply complaing about a game, doesn't let the developers (or publisher) aware of it, unless it is on a site that they read.
Thankfully blizzard has the "/bug" command to log bugs & suggestions. I use it all the time: about 2 bugs a day. Hopefully my feedback will make things better in the future.
There's a difference between criticism, and constructive criticism.
Peace
I would concur with that, on both accounts.
Will WoW increase the market share or cannibalize it? Hard to say, but I think we'll see more people who don't play MMORPGs, check WoW out, since it's not focused on the hard-core players. I even had a casual gamer friend say to me, who was also on the Open Beta
If someone who is a casual gamer (who only really likes co-op gaming) is excited about WoW, then its doing something right.
I'm an UO vet, and also had a chance to play the Open Beta. WoW is looking & playing nicely; it's got a good blend of UO, EQ, and D2.
Maybe it will turn out to be just-another-mmorpg, but it's to find one that is evolutionary enough, that you think is worth checking out.
Oh god, I sound like a blizzard-fan-boy... It's not my fault I enjoyed WC2, and D2X damit!
Peace
> I'm not a Christian and I fully accept that parts of the Bible may have been borrowed from other sources,
I'd love to add your references to my list.
> but quoting complete cranks like Velikovksy and Sitchin does not help your cause.
Spouting claims like this without any evidence doesn't help your cause either. Please englighten me.
> And that thing about the "map" - well, pravda.ru publishes a lot of pseudoscientific rubbish.
References and Links please...
Peace
> There is no significant historical evidence pre-ice age that homo sapiens were anything more than small nomadic bands
Just because you are ignorant of them, doesn't mean there are none:
- Why do the Pyramids and Sphinx show water erosion
- Granite Coffer show sign of super-advanced drilling techniques.
Spiraling patterns show this drill capable o drilling 1/10th of an inch per second. The best we can do thru granite is 1/100th.
- Eeboom and Belting found ancient gold trinkets of working aircraft models , once scaled up.
- A machined 3D relief map 120-million years old in a 1-ton stone, with inscriptions.
I could go on, but the best place of proof, that includes photos, is
Gods of the New Millennium : Scientific Proof of Flesh & Blood Gods by Alan F. Alford
Another OK reference is Shift of the Ages
Peace
http://www.universalway.org/Foreign/origins.html
h ttp://www.geocities.com/wally_mo/moses2.html
d /streams/thera/egy pt.html
s econd_centu ry_writings.htm
"It is the position of many Biblical researchers that most of the Old Testament comes from other, more ancient writings.
Even ** Jewish ** writers admit that most of the Hebrew writings were merely taken freely from Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and even Greek sources.
- Horace Meyer Kallen, at one time a professor at the Jewish New School of Social Research, said that the Book of Job was lifted bodily from an early and obscure Greek play.
- Scientist and author Immanuel Velikovsky admitted that there are "many parallels" between the Vedic Hymns and the Books of Joel and Isaiah.
- Hebrew scholar Zecharia Sitchin claimed that the Book of Genesis is based on the Sumerian creation myth.
- The story of Noah comes from the Sumerian legend of Gilgamesh.
- The Psalms were taken word for word from Akhenaton's Hymns to the Sun, written 600 years earlier in Egypt.
- The Ten Commandments (3,5,6,7,8,9,10) were taken from the Egyptian Book of the Dead
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/EGYPT/BOD125.HTM
#3 I have come to you, my Lord, I have brought myself here to behold
your beauties.
I know you, and I know your name,
I have not cursed a god. I have not scorned any god.
#5 I have not oppressed the members of my family.
I have not oppressed servants.
I have not cause harm to be done to a servant by his master.
#6 I have not killed.
I have not given the order to kill.
I have not inflicted pain on anyone.
#7 I have not fornicated.
#8 I have not added to or stolen land.
I have not added weights to the scales to cheat buyers.
I have not misread the scales to cheat buyers.
#9 I have not lied,
#10 I have not encroached on the land of others.
Here is an interesting link to more Egyptian & Old Testament
scriptural similiarilities:
http://www.mystae.com/restricte
- The New Testament wasn't compiled until 200-400 years after the fact. by Irenaeus.
http://www.thenazareneway.com/gospels_
"If this is true, then many informed researchers have asked: How can
we call the Torah and other books of the Old Testament the Word of
God?"
The Bible is NOT to be interpreted strictly literally, for why does Paul write in Gal 4:21-24 "These things may be taken _figuratively_, for the women represent two covenants." ?
Furthermore, if the Bible is the word of God, _which_ version would that be??
Peace
--
The evolution & "supposed" pre-ancient history of man is a crock.
One of the many proofs that intelligent pre-historic civilizations existed long BEFORE man's ancient civilizations...
1. Progression of "apparent" history of "man" - Hominidae is 3 millions years old
2. Geological Time Frames perspective
3. A machined 3D relief map 120-million years old in a 1-ton stone, with inscriptions. WTF?!
> If you're using Alcohol 120% mainly for it's virtual drive features on Windows, you won't need anything on the Mac.
.dmg files rock. The auto-run feature when mounted is just a bonus.
Yeap,
The other reason to use Alcohol is to rip music & games.
The music part is covered with iTunes. Even rips to aac, and mp3 out of the box!
Peace
Thx Bob!
/. didn't have stickies, as we could compile a "recommended" app list summary.
:( I wonder what people are using instead?)
Too bad
I finally remembered that DVD authoring program for Windows...
- DVD Maestro => DVD Studio, or Sizzle
(Allthough it is no longer being sold.
You a Red Dwarf fan?! The seasons are out on DVD! (Or your "local" torrent TV show listing)
Peace
Maybe the /. crowd can help point out a Mac, Window, & Linux versions of these Audio/Video apps?
CakeWalk
BeSweet
VirtualDub
TMPGEnc
Alcohol 120%
DVD Decryter
DVD Shrink
? => DVD Studio Pro
Nero => DiskBlaze (or are there better burning apps?)
I'm in the process of switching over to Mac OS X. (The only other OS that ever got me excited was BeOS.) The funny thing is I used to *hate* Macs, LOL.
Peace
> If you look at the original text, the word used for "God" is Elohim.
1) There is NO _original_ text, but I know you meant the Hebrew, and Paleo-Hebrew sources.
2) There are _72_ names used for God throughout the OT/OC.
Here is a list of the 72 Names of the Myriad Expression of the Living God.
Adonai Yahweh (Ah-doe-noi-yah-vay) Lord Yahweh
Aleph-Etz-Adonai (ah-lef Etz Ah-doe-noi) The tree of Aleph (the beginning) of Lordship.
Ammi Shaddai (Ah-me Sha-Digh) The people (or family) of Shaddai (Almighty God)
Ari Shemoth (Ah-ree She-mote) The Lion (Ari) who leads the Exodus (Shemoth) by means of the Sacred Language.
Abba Nartoomid (Ah-bah-Nahr-too-meed) Father of the Eternal Light
Adonai (Ah-doe-noi) Lord
Adonai Elohenu Adonai (Ah-doe-noi El-low-heh-new Ah-doe-noi) Lord, Our (Creative) God, Lord
Adonai Tsebayoth (Ah-doe-noi Sah-bigh-yoth) The (Sovereign) Lord of Armies (or the Hosts of the Heavens)
Bath Kol (Bah-th Koal) The Voice of the Dove, the power activating the feminine side of creation.
Be-mid-bar (Be-mid-bar) In the Wilderness symbolic for the ingathering and reprogramming using the code of Divine Numbers (Hebrew name for the Fourth Book of the Bible.
Bereshith Bara (Beara-sheeth Beara) The beginning (Word) of Life (Genesis)
Binah Ruach Devekut (Been-ah Roo-ahk Day-vah-koot) Clinging to God through the Spirit of Understanding.
Chesed Tushiyyah Shiloh (Chess-ed Too-she-yah-Shy-low) The place where the Loving-kindness of God will be in support of the Messianic Forces (the One who is or who will be manifest)
Chokmah Michaelilu (Hook-mah Mee-ka-Aye-loo) The Wisdom of Michael (and the order of Michael) shared with the saints.
Dabar Nartoomid Yesod Yeshuaiahu (Dah-bar Nah-too-meed Yes-ohd Ysh-ah Yh-who) The Word of Eternal Light (Dabar Nartoomid) which is the Foundation (Yesod) for Salvation. The code of the voice of Yeshuaiahu singing: Comfort Ye. Comfort Ye, my people.
Daniel Ehohai Ariel (Dah-nee-el El-lo-high Ah-ree-el) The Glorious Lion of God (Ariel) opening the (Seven Seals of) My God's (Elohai) Divine Judgment (Daniel).
Derek Kedoshah Yirmeahu (Dare-ik Key-doe-sha Yer-me ee-ah-who) The Holy Way of Yah who loosens the Womb.
Div-ray Haay-ya-min Hay Yom (Div-ray Hay-ya-meem Hay-yohm) The Chronicles of the Day of Days (in Service to the Most High).
Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh (Eh-ya Ah-sher Eh-ya) I AM THAT I AM (or I SHALL BE WHAT I SHALL BE).
El El (L L) A call to the Living God
El El Elyon (L L L-ee-yon) The most High God (be with us)
El Shaddai (L Sha-digh) The Lord God Almighty (Metatron)
Eli, Eli (A-lee, A-lee) My God, My God
Eloha Elohim (El-low-ha El-low-heem) The Living God of the Living Godhead.
Eloha Umma (El-low-ha Ooo-ma) God of the Universal Soul.
Esah Meshiah (Ace-sah Mah-she-ah) Counsel (or advice) of the Messiah
Ha Shem (Hah Shem) The name (of Names).
Hakdamoth Hekaloth (Hahk-dah-moh-th Hek-ah-low-th) Entrance of the House of Many Mansions (Many Heavens).
Hod Ha-Melek Zedek, Melchizedek Meshiah (Hohd Hah-Mell-ek Zah-dek, Mel-key-zah-dek Mah-she-ah) The Splendor of the Righteous King and messiahship of Melchizedek.
Jehezekel-Malkuth (Jeh-hez-zee-kel Mal-koot) God Strengthens (Ezekiel) His Kingdom.
Jehova-Yahweh Melchizedek (Ji-hoe-vah Yah-vay Mel-key-za-dek) The Revealed name of Our Father operating with Lord Melchizedek.
Jeshurun (Yeh-sha-rune) Righteous or code name for the Program/people of Israel.
Joiel Qohel'eth Tiphereth (Joe-ee-el Quo-hel-eth Tee-pa-reth) The beauty (Tiphereth) in the Teacher who knows that the Lord is El.
Kadumah Elohim (Kah-doo-ma El-low-heem) The Revealed Divine Image of the Godhead.
Kadumah Kadmon (Kah-doo-ma Kahd-mon) The Embodiment of the Divine Issuance.
Kether Etz Chaim Jehu (Ke-ther Eh-tz Kah-eem Jay-who) The Tree of Life that touches upon the Crown of Life in the Affirmation of the Nameâ or Crown (Kether) of the Tree of Life (Etz Chaim) affirmed by the name (Jehu).
Kodoish Kodoish Kodoish Adonai 'Tsebayoth (Kah-doy-sh, Kah-doy-sh, Kah-doy-
> Whose rule of thumb is that?
Mine, based on experience.
> So if my amp costs $2000, the speakers cost $3500, the player costs $500, you're telling me I need $600 worth of cables?
No. Please see my previous reply above
> What drugs are you smoking?
None. You came to incorrect conclusion based on faulty premises (Partially my fault for not explaining it properly, so lets call it even.)
Peace
> You guys end up telling us to spend too much money on the wrong things.
What is the most expensive speakers or video system you have actually spent some time with??
Once you've heard & seen a GOOD system, then you know where the priorities need to be adjusted.
This isn't a discussion about crap speakers less then $500.
Why in the earth that someone would spend a few thousand dollars on getting mid-range gear, and skimp on the cables is beyond me. If you can afford the $3500 speakers/TV, you can afford to spend $300 to get GOOD cables.
I spent $4000 on the plasma. Spending $400 on two video cables (Component & S-Video) WAS a noticable improvement over the $40 cables.
> 10% on cables!!
The trick is how to maximize the quality/price ratio. I came up with the 10% rule, because it was worked out VERY well for me. Since it is a rule, it provides a STARTING point -- it's not the word of God.
I probably shoud revise that rule with 2 clauses:
1) This price is based STRICTLY on the Video, and Speakers ONLY. This does not include the receiver, players, and other gizmos.
2) Between 1% and 10% is a good price range. Oviously the "real" serious audiophiles with the golden ears, will spend more. Hey everyone has a hobby, and I can understand their need for quality, but the rest of, a good price point helps prioritize the budget.
> If you're only spending $500-1000 on a system, just use the cables that come with the speakers..
I definatey agree. The 1%-10% would have us in the $5-$50 and $10 to $100 price range.
Peace
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> Only if you're also serious about paying $2,000-4,000 per meter!
It depends on which cable type. The Optix S-Video cable was only ~ $150 per meter, a FAR cry from your quoted price of $3,000/m.
Peace
> Most of what you are paying for when buying Bose is the marketing.
Hehe. What's that tagline that us audiophiles use:Gee, I wonder why they NEVER give tech specs on any of their speakers. Not anything fancy like SN ratio, but even the BASIC info such as frequency range! Maybe because they are CRAP and OVER_RATED speakers.
See the speaker forumforum at avsforum if you want MULTIPLE confirmations on how bad they sound.
Monster cable isn't THAT bad.... the rule of thumb is to spend 10% of your Home Theater / Speaker cost on cables... so MC is'n't that over-inflated. It's not great, but it's better that Rat Shack.
BTW, if anyone is serious about GOOD video cable quality, check out the Nordost line.
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While killing all the lawyers would make many people EXCEEDINGLY HAPPY (myself included)
it would NOT _SOLVE_ the problem -- because the problem is the face in the mirror.
If you don't like the laws, then DO something about it, or shut up,
because simply bitching accomplishes absolutely nothing.
> isnt the Emotion Engine (PS2) an 128bit processor?
Yeah, the EE has 128-bit registers for when the CPU is dealing with 4x Floats at a time, (Vectors via the VU0 & VU1), otherwise it is a normal 64-bit cpu.
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> Anyone know of a nice long RPG in the works? I remember playing Wizardry 7 for months before I was able to get all the way through it.
You completed Morrowind and the 2 expansion packs?
It's no Ultima 7, but it's pretty good.
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911 in Plain Sight has an interesting DVD (scroll down to [Movies - DVD-R] 911 In Plane Site ,excelent new docu...)
And here is a good commentary & rebuttal
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Or are you that ignorant and arrogant to assume that yours won't?
Why?
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws" -- Tacitus, A.D. 55
I remember finding hidden messages in the Apple ][ games I played. It was relatively easy todo, because you could memory scan for $C000 or $C010 (IO address for the keyboard strobe) (i.e. Trivial to stash a memory scanner program at $0300 the memory area before the text page, because most cases would load their code at $0800.
Another cool thing was finding hidden messages using a sector editor. It was quite feasable to scan 40 tracks * 16 sectors.
Some of the hidden codes/messages I remember..
Mario Bros
- Instead of running the game, if you loaded it and took a look at the entry point, you saw a jump. If you "started" the game, 3 bytes later, you would get a text pages of message from The Fly about cracking it.
i.e.
BLOAD MARIOS BROS
CALL -151
803G
- Gumball
Press Ctrl-Z during the intermission to get hints about another Br0derbund game.
- Spare Change
Ctrl-z would bring up a secret control panel.
more can be found here Apple Game Secrets
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> Most cameras that offer RAW mode have 12 bit sensors so you get 4096
I couldn't remember if it was 10-bit or 12-bit. Thx for the correction.
> The problem with JPG is that those 12 bits of information are squeezed into 256 levels of an 8 bit image.
Yeah, quantization sucks.
> Why is it that CinePaint doesn't get more publicity?
Never heard of CinePaint until today. I imagine Photoshop publicity is spread via a word-of-mouth type advertising. It is what everyone-else-you-know uses, either at home or at work, so it gets plugged. Why look for alternatives, when it does what you need?
Wow, CinePaint was used in "2 Fast 2 Furious, Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little and other feature films." Pretty cool. Thx for the link.
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> Who writes games in C anymore?
:) Calling C safe shows that the mod doesn't understand (or have a clue) exactly what dangerious low level programming C allows, and obsviously they never had to spend any time tracing through (malloc) memory leaks. Blah.
Console programmers with a legacy codebase.
We don't have a choice for bindings to the thin-vineer of an OS, so it's either C or C++. Most C programmers switch over to C++ because of the new paradigms the language lets you express natively, and fortunately the language is backwards compatible. (Its strength is also its weakness.)
I'm not sure why you got modded down as flamebait. Any language is unsafe. Some just make it easier to use & abuse then others
Oh well...
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>> Yeah, StarOffice/OO are open-source and free but they don't have the features that Word does.
> Which features?
I prefer OO.org myself, but here's a short list of a few problems I've found
- Word Art doesn't display or print correctly.
- Table of Contents is cut off in an imported Word Doc.
- No way to search for 2 consequitive enter/returns without some plugin that is slow, and doesn't work properly. (Find / Special Characters really needs to be implemented properly and natively.)
- Copying formatting is not the same as word. In word, you include the Paragraph marker. In OO.org you exclude it.
- Resetting Page Number in an already formatted document is quirky. You have to monkey around to get it to work properly.
OO.org is getting there, slowly. Fortunately, the above bugs/mis-features aren't a show stopper for me.
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> But very often digital cameras don't have separate sensors for each pixel; they have alternating R G B sensors in a kind of chessboard arrangement, and then interpolate the missing values.
Couple of notes...
That chessboard layout is called a Color Filter Array, usually arranged in a Bayer Pattern.
Digital cameras these days are 10 bit in RAW mode.
And some even have 4 color sensors.
dpreview is THE site for camera buffs, much the same way avsforum is for us audio & vidio philes. Now if only I could find sites for other categories....
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> what's wrong with 32 (RGB-10bit)??
>1024 discrete levels is about as good as your ever going to get on a CRT
> or LCD with the contrast ratios available to you.
That's 1024 for ONLY primary colors and banding still sucks on it. Unpure color gradients are limited even further. BLAH.
> So where do you get 64?
16-bit components * 4 channels = 64 Bit RGBA color
DX9 cards already support 16 bit half-floating point
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Have you tried 4NT
Page-up/down for directory history is worth it alone.
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